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Isabella (Izzi) Grasso receives the Frederica Clarkson Award.
Graduating senior Isabella Grasso of Portland, ME., received the Frederica Clarkson Award during Clarkson University’s spring 2021 commencement ceremony. She was selected for the $1,000 award by a vote of the full University faculty based on her scholarship and promise of outstanding achievement.
The award was established in 1921 as a bequest in the will of Frederica Clarkson, sister of Thomas S. Clarkson, for whom the University is named. This award and the Levinus Clarkson Award are traditionally given to the two top students in the graduating class.
Grasso earned a bachelor of science degree in data science. She was a presidential scholar for all of her semesters at Clarkson and graduated with a 3.93 GPA.
Isabella âIzziâ Grasso , Rebecca Meacham, Timothy Dunn, and Seamus Ober received the prestigious awards.
Izzi Grasso, a Portland, Maine native, is majoring in data science and will graduate in May. She plans to complete graduate work toward a Ph.D. in Information Science at the University of Washington where she will be working at the Center for an Informed Public, whose mission is to combat strategic misinformation and promote democratic discourse. She is broadly interested in studying how people talk about sexual violence in online communities and is interested in combatting rape culture.
During an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine, Izzi was introduced to algorithmic bias and the wider societal impacts of automation. Izzi has been conducting research with Dr. Jeanna Matthes auditing criminal justice software, quantifying gender bias using machine learning, and exploring algorithmic accountability. This wor
Isabella âIzziâ Grasso , Rebecca Meacham, Timothy Dunn, and Seamus Ober received the prestigious awards.
Izzi Grasso, a Portland, Maine native, is majoring in data science and will graduate in May. She plans to complete graduate work toward a Ph.D. in Information Science at the University of Washington where she will be working at the Center for an Informed Public, whose mission is to combat strategic misinformation and promote democratic discourse. She is broadly interested in studying how people talk about sexual violence in online communities and is interested in combatting rape culture.
During an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine, Izzi was introduced to algorithmic bias and the wider societal impacts of automation. Izzi has been conducting research with Dr. Jeanna Matthes auditing criminal justice software, quantifying gender bias using machine learning, and exploring algorithmic accountability. This wor
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